Alastair Campbell
25 October 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Only a general election can give us a new government
We used to laugh at Italy. But, after five Tory prime minister's in six years, we are now the global joke
Read the full article24 October 2022
Think Sunak will be a relief as prime minister? Think again
The new prime minister is a Brexit true believer who believes in making the rich richer
Read the full article18 October 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: If I was a bookie, these would be my odds for next PM’s portrait on the Downing Street wall
The Tories could unite to topple Truss. However, they are so divided at the moment that it may not be possible
Read the full article11 October 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The dishonourable Paul Dacre
Why are so many stories that are bad for the government unreported in large sections of the press? Simple. Intellectual corruption
Read the full article05 October 2022
From austerity to Z-listers, it’s Liz’s alphabet
These 26 letters spell no confidence in the new PM and her party. Here’s what they stand for
Read the full article28 September 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Liz Truss is bringing about her own downfall
Kwasi Kwarteng's budget is so economically unsound that it makes you wonder if Liz Truss is secretly working for the Bring Back Boris campaign
Read the full article21 September 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Mark Drakeford is a breath of fresh air
Drakeford has been quietly effective in Wales. Now I've spoken to him, it's clear to see why
Read the full article09 September 2022
How the Queen saved the monarchy
With vital help from a rebuilt team of advisers and her close family, she navigated the institution through the trickiest of times by showing real leadership acumen
Read the full article07 September 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Liz Truss’s first cabinet in no way matches her idol’s
Liz Truss may have risen to the top by projecting herself as some kind of Margaret Thatcher tribute, but Thatcher's first cabinet contained serious political names. Truss's does not
Read the full article05 September 2022
Lishi Trunak, not Joe Lycett, have made us a worldwide joke
In choosing Truss to succeed Johnson, it is pretty clear the Tory Party has not learned much from the reasons he turned out to be such a spectacular failure
Read the full article31 August 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Liz Truss’s cabinet will be a democratic disaster
Truss is preparing to form a cabinet filled with failures, opportunists and third-raters while we watch on helplessly
Read the full article24 August 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Sometimes, the BBC make it hard to support them
The BBC is an important part of our national and cultural identity and I remain a defender of them. But, on occasion, they make doing so quite difficult
Read the full article15 August 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The stabbing of Salman Rushdie gives new perspective to the ludicrous ‘war on woke’
This attack is what free speech is all about - not the ravings of Nadine Dorries
Read the full article10 August 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Liz Truss has some bizarre priorities for Downing Street
Strangely, Truss's beloved idol, Margaret Thatcher, didn't put office layout in any leadership and election manifestos
Read the full article03 August 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Liz Truss as prime minister is a reality no democracy should have to face
Yet, the words 'prime minister Liz Truss' will soon be part of our language and landscape
Read the full article26 July 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Leper Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
As competence joins fact-based debate in the dustbin of Brexit Britain’s history, queues mount at airports and Eurotunnel terminals
Read the full article18 July 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The media are normalising a deeply abnormal leadership race
There is too little questioning either of the process to choose the next prime minister or scrutiny of the half-baked proposals and vacuous slogans the candidates are bringing to the table
Read the full article13 July 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: My heartfelt tribute to Boris Johnson
Long after he is forgotten, his legacy of Brexit will still be with us. That is the real tragedy and why I feel unable to celebrate his departure
Read the full article05 July 2022
Enough is enough: Johnson is toast
His toadies are finally finding their spines and the only thing left is for the PM to go
Read the full article05 July 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Boris Johnson has surrounded himself with second-rate minds, including Nadine Dorries
The prime minister has deliberately created an inner circle who pose no threat and never question any of his actions
Read the full article29 June 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Labour must challenge the government’s economic myths
At the next election, Labour must hit back against the Tories’ myths rather than playing into them
Read the full article27 June 2022
A tribute to Dr Ernest Bennie, the man who saved my life
Ours was a chance encounter but it was absolutely life-changing, and I will never forget his kindness
Read the full article21 June 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Six years on, Brexit remains an act of national self-harm
Brexit continues to hurt the country politically, diplomatically and culturally. On its sixth anniversary, I’ve decided to ignore No 10’s promises that it’s going smoothly and focus elsewhere
Read the full article15 June 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The battle facing the Treasury Devil
The government has landed itself in a legal mess over the Northern Ireland protocol
Read the full article08 June 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Queen deserves better than Boris Johnson
His shtick and clowning around is an affront to her life and service
Read the full article06 June 2022
Don’t be fooled by this temporary reprieve, Johnson is toast
Tory MPs know, deep down, the prime minister is finished, and not a moment too soon
Read the full article01 June 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: How Boris Johnson became an accidental fascist
The prime minister wasn't born a fascist. But his incompetence and desperation to survive is certainly driving him in that direction
Read the full article25 May 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The tainted legacies of Germany’s ex-chancellors
The war in Ukraine is seeing the reputations of Olaf Scholz's two immediate predecessors reassessed, and not for the better
Read the full article19 May 2022
François Hollande’s not done with politics and warns that populism, left and right, must be defeated
The former French president takes aim at flippant Boris Johnson, Putin, Orbán and more
Read the full article18 May 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Why birthdays aren’t my thing
Good wishes on my birthday do not make me feel any better about getting older. Besides, there were two other important anniversaries last week both involving leaders of the Labour party
Read the full article11 May 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The right-wing media’s coverage of Beergate is sheer hypocrisy
The right-wing press are wrongly trying to convince readers Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson are just as bad as each other. The reality couldn't be more different
Read the full article04 May 2022
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Did Nadine Dorries libel me?
My criticisms of the culture secretary have nothing to do with her being a woman, and everything to do with her being hopeless and dangerously out of her depth
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